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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Ran into Neil & Julie Hunt at the top of Black Mountain today. The hike itself took Shyam and I 1:50 minutes to the top (Neil & Julie did it in 1:30, which goes to show that the decade between Pure Software and Netflix has not slowed him down at all). Neil is the Chief Product Officer at Netflix and as the former VP of Engineering built most of the software that runs the site. He happily showed me his new toy --- a weather station at his vacation home that regularly reports the current conditions over the net to his blackberry.